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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jan 25, 2022, 13:51 by simon@poole.ch:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><p><br></p><div class="">Am 25.01.2022 um 10:27 schrieb Florian
LAINEZ:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>..<br></div><div> <br></div><div>1. The deprecation definition is currently formalized and <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features" target="_blank">well described</a>:
"A deprecated tag or deprecated feature is tagging that is
recommended by OpenStreetMap community consensus for removal
and replacement with other tagging."<br></div><div>Therefore I don't understand when you say that "it's not a
formal concept".<br></div><div>I don't aim to change that definition at all. My only
proposal is to better define the reasons behind a deprecation.<br></div></div></blockquote><div>...<br></div><div> <br></div><p>That is text that was added by Brian just over a year ago. <br></p><p>Anybody can add literally anything to the wiki, doing so doesn't
make a concept formalized, a consensus or anything. You can argue
that stuff on the wiki that has weathered well over the years does
have some kind of standing, but given that essentially all wiki
changes are stealthy and fly under the radar, the time to achieve
such status needs to be a bit more than just a couple of months
back.<br></p></blockquote><div dir="auto">And as mentioned in edit description in<br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Deprecated_features&diff=2078409&oldid=2078224">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Deprecated_features&diff=2078409&oldid=2078224</a><br></div><div dir="auto">improvements to <br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features</a><br></div><div dir="auto">are welcome<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(OSM Wiki, at least for now, requires a separate account to edit - and people are in general<br></div><div dir="auto">welcomed!)<br></div> </body>
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